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Originally posted by Badge01
My understanding is that some of it is being overly paranoid, misinformation (dept store RFID chips can only be detected over a short distance and they don't broadcast) and administrative screwups.
Originally posted by goose
We all have heard how every cell phone can be tracked and located by its signal and strength to reveal a location. Why can't the gov. use all of the new technology to help us John Q. Forgotten Public?
en.wikipedia.org...
Why is it when someone is lost they can't use this technology to find them before they die? Every year we hear how searchers could not find someone until it was too late, but our gov. has all kinds of technology that we paid for and they use it against us but never for us.
Every page printed on a computer has a code printed that gives the serial number of the computer, I'm betting they have the serial number of every item in your house, (RFID chipped run through register to pay with your credit card or check), all that info is going somewhere, but then no one can trace those letter typed on a computer to it owners, would come in handy in kidnap cases, cases where the guy writes to the newspapers or reporters to boast.
Every picture taken has a code on it that can tell who owns the camera that took it, again kidnap cases.